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It's not the situation that's causing your stress,
it's your thoughts,
and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice,
and it has nothing to do with
what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song -
The song from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
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